Was excited to read this autobiography.. started well. John's School days, Cambridge College, Footlights.. and then reams and reams about the various stage plays and revues. As I progressed through the book and the remaining pages got fewer and fewer it slowly dawned on me with horror. There is next to nothing about Monty Python in this book. No Fawlty Towers. No Life of Brian. No Clockwise. No Time Bandits. No Fish Called Wanda. in fact the narrative barely makes it out of the 1960's. I would have been ok with this if I was prepared for it, but I just ended up disappointed. Hopefully one day there will be a Volume II
by raresaturn
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Huh, very odd choice if it doesn’t make it to the 70s
Cleese and the rest of the Pythons covered their Monty Python days exhaustively in their book Monty Python by the Pythons. It does delve into their childhoods, but Cleese is probably tired of having to answer the same questions about Python that he’s been asked for 50 odd years and felt like talking about his life pre-Pythons, which is fair.